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Nature Knows Best

June 13, 2018

Recent news articles show how engineers and inventors are helping mankind by imitating what plants, cells and animals do every day. A new kind of vaccine based on spider silk (Science Daily). Because spider silk is tough and yet biodegradable, it can be used as a delivery capsule for vaccines that might otherwise be resisted […]

Marine Biology

Incredible Fish that Defy Evolution

June 12, 2018

The variety of shapes, colors and ecological niches of fishes prove too much for chance mutations and unguided processes to handle.

Mammals

Marvelous un-Darwinian Mammals

June 7, 2018

Some familiar and unfamiliar mammals share their secrets of extreme adaptation and survival.

Genetics

Is It Becoming Safer to Doubt Darwin?

June 2, 2018

One recent secular news article leaves Darwin flailing without answers, but don't expect a revolution just yet.

Terrestrial Zoology

First Lizard Was 100% Lizard

May 30, 2018

Evolutionists celebrate the earliest fossil lizard, but have to push back the origin of lizards by 75 million years.

Darwin and Evolution

Evolutionists Shove Uncooperative Data into Darwinian Stories

May 29, 2018

If you're a Darwinian, your strategy is to make it seem like every piece of biological data fits evolution, even when it doesn't. Otherwise, creationists might get ideas.

Mind and Brain

Freaks of Evolution Exposed

May 28, 2018

A science writer calls some weird animals freaks of evolution, but there's a double meaning in that phrase begging to be unpacked.

Biomimetics

More Reasons to Imitate Biology

May 25, 2018

Recent articles about Biomimetics show that the field is still going strong.

Botany

This Plant Beats the Venus Flytrap for Speed

May 18, 2018

The waterwheel plant, an aquatic species with a snap-trap faster than the Venus flytrap, is different enough to challenge evolutionary speculations.

Human Body

“Y” Your Inner Ear Hears So Well

May 17, 2018

A new paper about the inner ear shows an additional level of organization and architecture that increases sensitivity and frequency discrimination.

Mammals

Beavers Clean the Soil

May 12, 2018

Without beaver dams, loss of nutrients from soil would increase, and pollutants from upstream erosion would afflict waterways.

Fossils

Amber Fossils Do Not Accurately Record Animal Diversity

May 9, 2018

A survey of arthropods trapped in tree sap shows that the unlucky ones do not represent an accurate cross section of the community.

Cell Biology

Molecular Machines Show Same Design Principles as Big Machines

May 4, 2018

Life needs molecular machines before natural selection can even be considered as a possible Darwinian explanation for them.